Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-03
THE CLIMATE.
The Most Remarkable to be Found and
Its Causes.

Its Causes.
The climate of this section is incompar-
able In common with all other parts of
the Sacramento valley it is winterless
There is no snow, no ice and no sweeping
wintry blasts. There are two seasons
spring and autumn The rains, which
commence usually in November, bring
spring, and the whole earth is clothed in a
yernal spring. These rains continue in
showers till May and June. when they
cease and the dry season or autumn COM
mences. The temperatures are such that
if the showers continued through the
whole year there would be one perennial
spring.
CLIMATIC CAUSES
On the latitude, so unlike anything known
in the States east of the Sierra Nevada on
the same parallel, are simply geographical
ones. There is the constant presence of
the tempered winds from the heated ocean
currents which wash the whole coast of
the State and the entire absence of the
Arctic blasts, which are DETECTED by the
mountain barrier which runs from the
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same latitude, east of the mountains, there
is from five to seven months winter The
earth is covered with snow and ice, and
the people and the animals are housed as
a necessary protection from winter storms
and blasts. Blazing fires of wood and coal
are required to overcome the Temperatures
that are constantly in the neighborhood of
zero or below that point. The earth is
frozen to a depth of several feet. and the
rivers and creeks are locked in ice. The
buildings are frineed with huge icicles,
and every out door industry is at a stand
still
TIE WINTERLESS YEARS.
How different the picture here. The
autumn showers have come and the whole
earth is clothed with a mantle OF green,
relieved BY the brilliant coloring of a
varied anil luxuriant fora. Flocks and
herds craze on the new verdure, and every
field is d sc-ne OF industrial animation.
Every plow and harrow is moving from
sunrise TO sunset, preparing for the winter
sowing. The fall grain waves to every
breeze. alk orange trees are laden with
their golden fruit. The woods, groves and
thickets are vocal with the songs of the
birds that have come here to winter, and
bees and butterflies hover lazily around
the ilowerstha FIJI the gardens.
/ soft autumn haze covers the valleys
and hllsides, children playin the open air.
people sit with open doors and windows in
midday, and fires have no office in sitting
rooms except to temper the air OF morning
and evening
TEMPERATURES.
The mean annual temperature is 62.G
Fab. The Amean winter temperature is
49,, spring temperature 614o, summer
7S.7o, and for autumn 63.3o. The lowest
temperature for fourteen yeais has been 20o
above zero. The number of clear days are
~. These days are perfectly cloudless
The number Of DAYS Of fair weather are
much more than the figures indicate. The
homeseeker must bear in mind that to the
farmer, the stock-raiser, the orchardist,
vineyardist and gardener, all these days
when there are no clouds, and the full rays
OF the sun flood the earth, are like showers
of gold. With moisture, the sunlight
means abundant crops, and these are gold
in the pocket.
ECONOMIC VALUE OF CLIMATE.
iiIlRN Will SHOW lNc NOME
seeker how much more he will have laid
by for the rainy day of old age in a
climate where he has fifty-two weeks for
field work, as he does here, instead of the
twenty-six weeks in a winter climate in the
East. At 81 day that means S156 more
earned each year, and from 20 years of age
TO 90 ii means 81, $50 more than he would
earn in a winter country That sum put
at interest as it is earned would amount to
an independence-more than the average
laborer can expect to lay by or does lay by
Add to this sum the amount that is saved
in thirty winters food, clothing and fuel
and it viii be seen what a winterless eli
mate means to the field worker in profit
and pleasure.
RAINFALL.
The rainfall of Colusa county is about
l6 inches on the plains and from 20 to "a
inches on the higher foothills and mount
aims. AS has been said, this precipitation
occurs from November to May, inclusive,
and is in showers.